The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-08-27
WISCONSIN ITEMS

~ ihDN ~ S1AN Il II VI -
JAMES MALLoY, while trying to
Jump off freight train at the Far
well Avenue crossing, Milwaukee, on
the 18th, fell beneath the wheels and
had both Of his legs badly crushed.
He is % years old and a sailor by oc.
cupatlon.
THE sixth annual convention OF the
Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton will be held in Madison, Septem-
Der y to %.
j. f. THOMAS is serving q four
months sentence at La Crosse for
stealing a vahse from the railway
depot.
THE earnings of the St. Paul road
for the second week in August were
SAL 5000 as against $40S,O00 for the
corresponding week in 1886, an in
crease OF 81 600.
THE earnings OF the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore & Western road for the
second week 10 August were $SZ, 343,
against $56, ,966 for the correspond
ing week OF 1886, an increase OF S25,-
377.
CHARLES NJ. ASH died at Eau Claire
by q horse.
OFFICIAL reports show that Wis
consln @. 4. Il. members number TO-
662, q gross gain during the quarter
ending July l OF 657 aud a net gain Of
297. The receipts OF tae posts were
$16,918.57.
Mrs l.. W. HOYT, OF Madison, and
Mrs. j. Hiles, OF Milwaukee, have been
appointed additional delegates to the
National Conference OF Chariti 8 and
Corrections at Omaha, August % to
81.
SEVENTY FIVE walters in the Che
quamegon Hotel at Ashland struck
because two walters were discharged
for drunkenness. The strikers dined
at q rival hotel.
CLARK PETERSON, OF Eau Claire, no.
ticed that the water the family was
using tasted badly and on removing
the well covering he found IN the well
two poisonous snakes alive, twenty
dead toads and host OF frogs.
IvER E. BERG, who has been treas
urer for a school IN the town OF Al
bion, Trempealeau County for twelve
years, has been lodged in the county
Jail on q charge OF embezzling school
funds. The alleged cash shortage is
$16O.
OLE HANSON, q Mt. Horeb grain
dealer, is under arrest charged with
assaulting Erik Gylsme, his brother
in-law, with q knife with intent to
kill.
IT is understood that the Buriing-
ton Railway Company viii shortly
| commence the erection OF repair shops
st Grand Crossing, near La Crosse.
SEVERAL young men Of Eau Claire
were fined $25 and costs each for viO-
lating the game law.
| WILLIAM GRAY, q pioneer OF the
| Wisconsin lead region, died at Benton,
aged So years.
MILTON UPDEGRAFF, ofDecorah, Ia,
who has been assistant astronomer
/ at the Washburn Observatory at
| Madison since his graduation from
| the university in 1884, has accepted
g position in the National ODserva-
tory of the Argentine Republic, s. a.
| He will sail from New York on Sep
tember l 4, leaving Madison the first
| week In the month.
THE Stewart Lumber Company has
| bought 10000 acres OF pine land in
| Ashland County. 1t is said to contain
| 1OC, 100000 feet. The consideration
| is unknown, but it is said is between
| $3.50, 900 and $5OO,OOO.
JUDGE MAKDEN, OF Bayfield,, sen
fenced the keeper OF a disreputable
house to eighteen months lmprlsOn-
ment at hard labor, at Waupun.
EAU CLAIRE Is to have knitting
works employing seventy hands.
The st. Paul Railway Company has
completed the new depot at Madison.
| A. f. CLINTON, a La Crosse railway
man, was robbed OF q watch valued
at 800. A day or two later he re
ceived a watch by express from an
unknown source. The new watch IS
worth $500.
IT is reported that the Knights OF
| Labor Of Eau Claire have decided to
| petition the mayOrf for the enforcement
IN that city of the Sunday laws.
IRON ore has been discovered in La
Crosse County nine miles from the
city Of La Crosse.
Net fishing on the Mississippi River
in the vicinity of La Crosse will be
stopped by state game wardens.
SAM Brown pays $15O,000 for the
Cbequamegon Hotel property at Ash
| land. The deal includes ali OF block
76, upon which the hotel is located,
block So, which gives h 400 loot front
age, end three lots in block 81, where
the Ashland Theater stands.
An Alma farmer told a party OF &C
| quaintances at La Crosse that he had
killed a partridge with his whip while
on his wav to the city. Among MS
hearers was a game warden who ar
rested him. The farmer was fined
| $3.50.
| ASHLAND has a new riding park.